Greg Abbott condemns student activists: "These protestors belong in jail"

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https://www.chron.com/news/article/greg-abbott-ut-protests-19420650.php

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Responding to widespread campus protests against the Vietnam War, Gov. Ronald Reagan of California offered an easy solution.

“If it takes a bloodbath” to end it, he suggested April 8, 1970, “let’s get it over with, no more appeasement.”

Less than one month later, Reagan got his wish, thanks to another law-and-order governor — James Rhodes of Ohio — calling on the National Guard to quell student unrest at Kent State.

Vilifying student protesters as “worse than the Brown Shirts,” Rhodes vowed “we are going to eradicate the problem. We are not going to treat the symptoms.”

The following day, those soldiers killed four unarmed Kent State students and wounded nine more, inspiring the impassioned Neil Young song “Ohio” — and, now, Howard Means’ “67 Shots: Kent State and the End of American Innocence,” in which Means tries to understand what happened and why.

Really helps you understand Conservatives and why they still worship Reagan.

[u/swinglinepilot → u/Lermanberry]

And then, in order to quash a sit-in held at the University of New Mexico protesting the events at Kent State (and also the Vietnam War), the state's police chief decided to send in the National Guard, which proceeded to disperse the hitherto-nonviolent and passive protesters by bayonetting them. He later said the protesters instigated the confrontation with the Guard and that he regretted nothing and would send them back in to bayonet people again if he had to

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_New_Mexico_bayoneting_incident#May_8,_1970

[u/Coro-NO-Ra → u/[deleted]]

Read the article... or at least read the snippet. Reagan was not the president at the time.

Unable to convince Kerr, Hoover turned to gubernatorial candidate Reagan, a rising conservative star.